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Wilberforce, and people like him, ended the global slave trade that had existed for several thousand years.They didn’t invent it, but they did stop it.I should say almost entirely. There are still remnants of it in some parts of the world.Proudofus.uk (@ProudofusUK):He was DEFEATED ELEVEN TIMES.Attacked. Threatened with DEATH. Nearly blind.Addicted to opium just to function. They told him to stop. He spent forty-six years refusing.His name was William Wilberforce. Born in Hull, 1759.He could have lived a co ...